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FS#23880 - [pacman] parameter --nodeps doesn't work anymore

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Heiko Baums (cyberpatrol) - Friday, 22 April 2011, 06:56 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 22 April 2011, 09:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
At least since the latest pacman update to version 3.5.2 the --nodeps/-d parameter doesn't work anymore.

I tried to temporarily uninstall lirc-utils and got this message:

# pacman -Rsd lirc-utils
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: mplayer: requires lirc-utils
:: xawtv: requires lirc-utils
:: xine-ui: requires lirc-utils

Instead pacman should ignore these dependencies or shouldn't do these dependency checks at all and uninstall lirc-utils.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 22 April 2011, 09:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Read the man page
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Friday, 22 April 2011, 08:06 GMT
From the pacman manpage:
-d, --nodeps
Skips dependency version checks. Package names are still checked. Normally, pacman will always check a
package’s dependency fields to ensure that all dependencies are installed and there are no package
conflicts in the system. *Specify this option twice to skip all dependency checks.*

(emphasis mine)

Have you tried 'pacman -Rsdd foo'?

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